Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

What most entrepreneurs fail to appreciate is that even the most basic marketing takes time, money and creativity, and even the best still may not succeed in winning over competitive approaches or the status quo. According to Gartner's Hype Cycle Special Report for 2014 , wearable user interfaces such as Google Glass are now in this stage.

Startup 97

Startup Marketing Entrepreneur Social Network 97

StartUp Beat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

shouts, the conference maintains a theme that is much like Burning Man, and coincidently the event’s 2015 iteration did in fact hold a Burning Man festival. . It’s a competition where entrepreneurs take the stage and proceed to pitch their startup ideas and their visions for the future. Disrupt SF ( Sep 18-20).

Conference 40

Conference Startup Artificial Inteligence Competition 40

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

This takes too much time in our super-competitive environment, and the result of a total buy-in is usually a watered-down version of the original decision or action they intended. Team members quickly learn to report positives, while hiding problems. Marty Zwilling Published on IvyExec.com on 11/27/2015.

Startup 61

Startup Entrepreneur Training News 61

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 22, 2016

billion in 2015 alone. The way to get ahead of the competition is to look at what they’re doing right and do it better. Facebook already includes some report automation tools in their campaigns to help track metrics, but you may want to automate some of the publishing effort too with Hootsuite.com or Argyle Social. That was $15.5

Marketing 40

Marketing Social Media Social Network Technical Review 40

Xconomy

JULY 6, 2016

National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins (pictured) and FDA commissioner Rob Califf spoke on a call this afternoon to update the Precision Medicine Initiative, or PMI, which President Obama unveiled in early 2015. “In medicine, ‘one size fits all’ is often far from an optimal strategy,” Collins said.

Study 59

Study PMI San Diego Sample 59

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2015

Lore’s biggest promise is that Jet members will enjoy prices “10 to 15 percent below the lowest prices online,” a bold pitch in today’s hyper-competitive retail landscape. However, Jet faces considerable competition: Amazon generated $23.18

Pricing 40

Pricing Commerce Startup Study 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

I read reports this week that when he was unhappy with some actions of his players he sent in an emissary to deal with them because he didn’t have the time or patience to deal with the drama that comes from having talented, high-paid professionals with opinions (as opposed to college players who have little choice). Team Building.

Startup 150

Startup Coach Course Invest 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Since both skills are required in equal amounts for success, the single founder failure rate today is reported to far exceed 50 percent. Paradigm-shift solutions have no competition." The real competition to a new paradigm is the old paradigm. The first airplane faced major competition from trains and automobiles.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Startup Social Media Competition 60

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information.

Startup 40

Startup Framework Statistics Customer 40

Xconomy

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The drug system went off the market in 2015, leaving Mylan’s EpiPen without competition and setting the stage for the furor over Mylan’s price hikes. —Tucked into Biogen’s (NASDAQ: BIIB ) earnings report this week was news that the company discontinued development of a drug called MT-1303. billion last year.

Pricing 40

Pricing Conference News Study 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million).

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210